Connecting africa using the TV white spaces: from research to real world deployments

Sidney Roberts, Paul Garnett, Ranveer Chandra
2015 The 21st IEEE International Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks  
More than 4 billion people are not connected to the Internet. This is either because there is no infrastructure or because Internet access is not affordable. This digital divide is extreme in Africa. At Microsoft, we have been investigating various technologies to bridge this divide. In this paper we describe our research around the TV White Spaces, and how we have leveraged it, and worked with our partners to connect communities in Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.
doi:10.1109/lanman.2015.7114729 dblp:conf/lanman/RobertsGC15 fatcat:jtcct3ry35c6ph56eqr46bvnzq